The processor power of the ipod touch and even the iphone is more than a most handhelds out there in the market place according to this forum.

And if the format can be support by age old phones by Nokia Sagem and Sony etc then why not Apple, the hardware should be more than capable.

According the Gameloft forums people are enjoying the playability and depth and there doesnt seems to be any haters out there at present (except for a few bugs) according to my brief research on their website.

Sorry I am not being clear Football Manager 2009 is available to download to various held held units and older specified phone on the Gameloft website. So there is already a well played version of Football Manager 2009 being actively used on older models of hardware with lower and slower specs. The forums for the game talk about youth training and porting directly from Real Football 2009 so if this a stripped own version of the computer version it still has depth and lots of playability.

So why not tap into one of the newest and fastest growing platforms out there ie the iphone and ipod touch.

We have had Real Football 2009 - Why not the Football Manager version?

I used to love the Championship Manager games but Gameloft's Real Football: Manager Edition '09 would do, as long as the DB was reasonably up-to-date and you have a good amount of options as their site seems to suggest you get with the Mobile version.

Gameloft have still not back to me but I would presume that the launch of a polished Football Manager 2009 game for the ipod would fall in to the soon to be created $19.99 dollar premium game catagory. So release is on hold until then.